Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought you might be interested to know that I was so touched by it that I have just sent my personal check to him to further the great work he and his associates are doing...
Great Discomfort. The opposition was represented by three points of view. First there were the hard-shelled isolationists like North Dakota's William Langer. They had a surprising ally in elderly, mustached Ralph Flanders of Vermont, a longtime internationalist. He thought the pact did not go far enough; he wanted to turn it into a rejuvenated U.N., equipped with its own international police force. Senator Flanders was convinced that the Politburo had set out to ruin us economically . . . by a "budgetary ambush," forcing the U.S. into a bankrupting arms race...
Some businessmen thought they could already see a few patches of blue through the clouds. If unemployment had risen, so had employment; in June it hit 59,619,000, the highest this year...
...Atomic Energy Commission has been vainly begging Du Pont, which ran the Hanford atomic plant during the war and then got out lest it be tagged as a merchant of death again, to put its vast resources back to work on atomic energy. But as long as Tom Clark thought Du Pont was too big, there was small hope that Du Pont would accede to AEC's plea to grow bigger...
...more air than light. His job, at a time when the job needed doing, was to cudgel Comstockery and hack at hypocrisy, and he did both with a zest that makes his pages effervesce 30 years after their subjects were topical. Mencken, whatever the college boys may have thought a quarter-century ago, was no great thinker; he was a man of stout prejudices, with a gift and vocabulary for iconoclastic expression even richer than Mark Twain's. In the word's true sense he was, like Thoreau, a radical. But he was also a political conservative...